Group project = Group Misery? Not Necessarily...

As we begin our group projects this week, I was filled with a bit of dread. Group projects remind me of a three ring circus, all kinds of different things going on in all different directions, and sometimes not in a good way. Luckily my group mates are organized and dedicated. We all seem to mesh and work well together. We all have different strengths and weaknesses so that makes for a nice well rounded team. I actually look forward to helping them pull this whole thing together. 

On another note, tomorrow I will be traveling to Asheville for a North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs conference. This will be the first conference I have attended and I am really looking forward to it. I really do love my job as a County Veteran Service Officer and I hope to come back with some valuable information for my toolbox. 

I saw this picture on the label of a bottle of wine last weekend. 

I have to admit that I thought it looked like the bear was throwing up at first. 

He had too much wine perhaps..... 

Have a great week everyone!

 

Building in Second Life

I really like to build stuff in real life, so building stuff in Second Life is pretty cool. It is fun to play around with the shapes and textures, but not as satisfying as creating something real that I can touch. This week we were asked to create three original objects and find three objects to decorate our space in Second Life. I was a bit stumped about what to build at first, so I looked through my inventory to get a few ideas. I seemed to have a collection of hats in my inventory so I decided to build a hat rack. It is a pretty basic structure, but it took me awhile to get the parts of it all lined up just right and to link them all together so they could be moved as one unit.

After I got it built to where I could live with it I took the hats from my inventory out and placed them on the rack to display. One of the three required items was complete. After that I started playing with different shapes and trying to grow a tree, but since I don't own the land I couldn't grow a tree the old fashioned way so decided to build a tree. Since it is nearing the holidays (and because I couldn't figure out how to build any other shape of tree) I built a Christmas tree. I didn't decorate it yet however. Maybe my roomies will give me a hand with that. 

I then constructed some decorative candles that really glow to give the room a nice homey atmosphere. 

Have a great week everyone.

  

Touring NIU in SL

This past week a friend and I took a self guided tour of the Second Life campus of Northern Illinois University. The campus was a nice looking place but seemed very small compared to the campus of East Carolina University, which made me wonder if other universities use or still use Second Life as an educational platform in the way ECU does. It turned out that many of the classrooms were located in the sky and so that is why the campus appeared to be small. The campus was mostly deserted except for one person playing in the sand box with a car that they rezzed in. My friend and I also took the opportunity to do some building while we were there. I had gotten a free beach house in a box at the Freebie Galaxy and had wanted to try it out and see what it looked like. It was HUGE! I had to delete it peice by peice before I left the campus. Kind of a neat experience regardless.